Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast -- the world's largest cocoa producer -- to investigate what's happening to children working in the fields.

published:16 Jan 2012

views:108056

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. Cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to CorpWatch. Chocolate producers around the world have been pressured to "verify that their chocolate is not the product of child labor or slavery. In 2000, BBC aired Slavery: A GlobalInvestigation which brought the issue of child labor in the cooca industry to light. In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hope to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa.
Production
The Dark Side of Chocolate was produced by Danish journalist Miki Mistrati who investigated the use of child labor and trafficked children in chocolate production. It is filmed by U. Roberto Romano.The filming started in Germany, where Mistrati asked vendors where their chocolate comes from. They then flew to Mali, where many of the children are from. Next, they explored the Ivory Coast where the cocoa plantations are located. The film ends in Switzerland where both the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Nestle headquarters are located. Much of the footage in this documentary is recorded using a secret camera located in a bag Mistrati carries with him. The documentary was released in 2010, first in Denmark, and later in Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and NorwaySynopsis
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol that would aim to end the worse forms of child trafficking and slave labor.[9] However, child trafficking still continued in countries in West Africa. Authorities and companies denied it happened. Due to this conflicting outlook, the filmmakers went undercover to discover the truth. The film starts with its two filmmakers investigating independently by journeying to the western coast of Africa to the country of Mali, the country where children were rumored to be smuggled from and then transported to the Ivory Coast.[10] The team of journalists aimed to investigate human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the worldwide chocolate industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks each vendor at a gathering of chocolate makers where their chocolate is imported from. Their responses lead to the conclusion that almost all chocolate is imported from somewhere in Africa. Their detective work lead them to find that people in Mali were trafficking children at bus stations by bribing them with work and money, or by kidnapping them from villages. Afterward, they are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to plantations. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard labor, physically abused, and paid poor wages, or none at all. Most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. Child labor and trafficking is illegal according to the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by all major chocolate companies promising not to harvest their cocoa beans through means of child workers. When confronted with this issue, the corporate representatives of some of these companies denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the investigations of the filmmakers proved brought to light the continued abuse of children on cocoa plantations.

published:11 Jun 2013

views:152251

BV 11-11 The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery
"The Dark Side of Chocolate" directed by Miki Mistrati shows that young children are still being illegally sold to cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, Africa to harvest much of the cocoa crop used by Nestle, Hershey and the major chocolate producers of the world.
In 2001, these large chocolate producers signed the Cocoa Protocol which promised to work for the eradication of child labor by 2008.
The Church of the BrethrenAnnual Conference in 2008 passed a resolution against slavery in the 21st century. That action was the 10th time that the Church of the Brethren had passed anti-slavery resolutions:. Nine other resolutions were passed from 1782 - 1857, prior to the US civil war to end slavery. The 2008 resolution made a commitment to educating ourselves and others about modern day slavery.
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published:24 Jul 2012

views:115799

Chocolate sure does taste good. But a 16x9 investigation inGhana uncovers a nasty truth - many cocoa beans in that country are harvested by children. Many of those kids aren't given a choice; some are even slaves. All workers, no matter the age, live in poverty. Still taste good?
CatherinePope reports.

RobynCurnow explores how CNN has covered this issue over the years and its efforts to reduce child labor.
EDOF is partnering with the CNN Freedom Project because of its long-standing commitment to bringing greater global awareness to the problem of human trafficking.
The Freedom Project has been pivotal in not only spreading information about the issue, but it has been able to catalyze concrete action by donor countries, international organizations, NGO’s, and private foundations through passionate storytelling, investigative journalism, documentaries, and live events.

published:06 May 2015

views:8501

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Meet the two young men; Noufou and Mamoutou, who recently came back from labouring the cocoa plantations; a place from where not everyone returns alive.
In a striking moment caught by the filmmaker; these two young men taste chocolate for the first time in their lives.
TRACKS publishes unique, unexpected and untold stories from across the world every week.
From "Semisweet: Life in Chocolate"
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRACKSTravelChannel/
Content licensed from Cargo Releasing.
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Background

The album was announced in January 2010 by Fat Joe saying that "he was working on a new album, The Darkside: Volume 1". MTV News reported that Fat Joe intended "all the material...to be much harsher" than his previous album. On March 28, 2010, Fat Joe signed a record deal with E1 Music and announced that he would release The Darkside Vol. 1 through the label in July. Fat Joe stated The Darkside Vol. 1 is all about: showin' the world that I'm a legend, and just furtherin' the legacy." Fat Joe stated that he returned to his hardcore hip hop roots and considers this album to be a classic.

Dark Side (song)

"Dark Side" is a song by American pop-rock artist Kelly Clarkson, written by busbee and Alexander Geringas, and produced by Greg Kurstin. The song was released by RCA Records on June 5, 2012 as the third and single from Clarkson's fifth studio album, Stronger (2011). "Dark Side" is a mid-tempo synthpop song that incorporates a vigorous music box melody with up-tempo beats in choruses, with its lyrics containing the theme of acceptance, recovery, and inner-beauty.

"Dark Side" has received generally positive reviews from music critics who considered the song as a good successor to "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", Clarkson's previous single. Critics also praised Clarkson's vocal performance blending with the song's melody. It became her second consecutive song to top the BillboardHot Dance Club Songs chart.

Depiction

Throughout the series, characters exhibit various paranormal powers that rely on the Force, such as telekinesis and empathy. The Force has a negative and destructive aspect called the "dark side", which feeds off emotions such as fear, anger, greed, pride, jealousy and hate. Jedi Master Yoda explains to his pupil Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back (1980):

List of Transformers spacecraft

Spacecraft

Alchemor. An Autobot prison ship featured in the 2015 Robots in Disguise series. With a crew including the Mini-Con Fixit, the ship carried some two hundred Decepticon prisoners, most of whom escaped when the vessel crash-landed on Earth. As a result, Optimus Prime contacted Bumblebee and directed him to travel to Earth.

Ark. The flagship of the Autobots commanded by Optimus Prime in the Transformers television series. The computer of the ship was called Teletraan I (voice provided by Kasey Kasem), and it provided intelligence to the Autobots for their various missions. The original series saw it crashing on Earth several million years prior to 1984, and it was discovered some three million years before then by the characters of Beast Wars: Transformers. IDW Publishing's comic series revealed that Optimus Prime's Ark was actually the second ship to bear the name, the first belonging to Nova Prime. The Ark was later seen in the Transformers: Cybertron series as the combined form of four Autobot ships: the Atlantis, Ogygia, Lemuria, and Hyperborea. In Transformers: Timelines/Shattered Glass, a mirror Ark serves as the warship of the evil mirror-universe Optimus Prime, which was stolen by Rodimus to invade Earth.

The Dark (Metal Church album)

The Dark is the second full-length album released by Metal Church. It was released on 6 October 1986 and was the last album featuring the group's classic lineup of David Wayne, Kurdt Vanderhoof, Kirk Arrington, Duke Erickson, and Craig Wells. 1999's Masterpeace album reunited the former four, with John Marshall replacing Wells.

Album information

The Dark talks of somber themes, such as assassination, death, struggle, rituals, and the supernatural: the lyrics from "Line of Death", for example, were based on Libyan hostilities in the Gulf of Sidra. "Watch the Children Pray" became the band's first music video. The album was dedicated to the late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, who died nine days before its release. In order to promote The Dark, Metal Church supported Metallica and Anthrax on the Damage, Inc. Tour. They also opened for King Diamond.

Reception

Reviews for The Dark have been mostly positive. Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia awards the album two-and-a-half stars out of five, and states that it "contained some of the group's best material." In 2005, the album was ranked number 389 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.

Chocolate Child Slaves- CNN

Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast -- the world's largest cocoa producer -- to investigate what's happening to children working in the fields.

46:32

The Dark Side Of Chocolate 2010 Full Documentry

The Dark Side Of Chocolate 2010 Full Documentry

The Dark Side Of Chocolate 2010 Full Documentry

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. Cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to CorpWatch. Chocolate producers around the world have been pressured to "verify that their chocolate is not the product of child labor or slavery. In 2000, BBC aired Slavery: A GlobalInvestigation which brought the issue of child labor in the cooca industry to light. In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hope to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa.
Production
The Dark Side of Chocolate was produced by Danish journalist Miki Mistrati who investigated the use of child labor and trafficked children in chocolate production. It is filmed by U. Roberto Romano.The filming started in Germany, where Mistrati asked vendors where their chocolate comes from. They then flew to Mali, where many of the children are from. Next, they explored the Ivory Coast where the cocoa plantations are located. The film ends in Switzerland where both the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Nestle headquarters are located. Much of the footage in this documentary is recorded using a secret camera located in a bag Mistrati carries with him. The documentary was released in 2010, first in Denmark, and later in Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and NorwaySynopsis
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol that would aim to end the worse forms of child trafficking and slave labor.[9] However, child trafficking still continued in countries in West Africa. Authorities and companies denied it happened. Due to this conflicting outlook, the filmmakers went undercover to discover the truth. The film starts with its two filmmakers investigating independently by journeying to the western coast of Africa to the country of Mali, the country where children were rumored to be smuggled from and then transported to the Ivory Coast.[10] The team of journalists aimed to investigate human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the worldwide chocolate industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks each vendor at a gathering of chocolate makers where their chocolate is imported from. Their responses lead to the conclusion that almost all chocolate is imported from somewhere in Africa. Their detective work lead them to find that people in Mali were trafficking children at bus stations by bribing them with work and money, or by kidnapping them from villages. Afterward, they are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to plantations. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard labor, physically abused, and paid poor wages, or none at all. Most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. Child labor and trafficking is illegal according to the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by all major chocolate companies promising not to harvest their cocoa beans through means of child workers. When confronted with this issue, the corporate representatives of some of these companies denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the investigations of the filmmakers proved brought to light the continued abuse of children on cocoa plantations.

29:02

The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery

The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery

The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery

BV 11-11 The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery
"The Dark Side of Chocolate" directed by Miki Mistrati shows that young children are still being illegally sold to cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, Africa to harvest much of the cocoa crop used by Nestle, Hershey and the major chocolate producers of the world.
In 2001, these large chocolate producers signed the Cocoa Protocol which promised to work for the eradication of child labor by 2008.
The Church of the BrethrenAnnual Conference in 2008 passed a resolution against slavery in the 21st century. That action was the 10th time that the Church of the Brethren had passed anti-slavery resolutions:. Nine other resolutions were passed from 1782 - 1857, prior to the US civil war to end slavery. The 2008 resolution made a commitment to educating ourselves and others about modern day slavery.
--
For a quick view on YouTube of more PEGMedia films available from BrethrenVoices: http://BrethrenVoices.at7c.com
--

8:08

16x9 - Child Labour: The Dark Side of Chocolate

16x9 - Child Labour: The Dark Side of Chocolate

16x9 - Child Labour: The Dark Side of Chocolate

Chocolate sure does taste good. But a 16x9 investigation inGhana uncovers a nasty truth - many cocoa beans in that country are harvested by children. Many of those kids aren't given a choice; some are even slaves. All workers, no matter the age, live in poverty. Still taste good?
CatherinePope reports.

4:37

Child Slavery In the cocoa fields

Child Slavery In the cocoa fields

Child Slavery In the cocoa fields

Chocolate industry tackles child slavery

RobynCurnow explores how CNN has covered this issue over the years and its efforts to reduce child labor.
EDOF is partnering with the CNN Freedom Project because of its long-standing commitment to bringing greater global awareness to the problem of human trafficking.
The Freedom Project has been pivotal in not only spreading information about the issue, but it has been able to catalyze concrete action by donor countries, international organizations, NGO’s, and private foundations through passionate storytelling, investigative journalism, documentaries, and live events.

6:02

Worked at the Ivory Coast Cacao Plantation: Tasting Chocolate for the First Time | TRACKS

Worked at the Ivory Coast Cacao Plantation: Tasting Chocolate for the First Time | TRACKS

Worked at the Ivory Coast Cacao Plantation: Tasting Chocolate for the First Time | TRACKS

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Meet the two young men; Noufou and Mamoutou, who recently came back from labouring the cocoa plantations; a place from where not everyone returns alive.
In a striking moment caught by the filmmaker; these two young men taste chocolate for the first time in their lives.
TRACKS publishes unique, unexpected and untold stories from across the world every week.
From "Semisweet: Life in Chocolate"
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRACKSTravelChannel/
Content licensed from Cargo Releasing.
Any queries, please contact us at: support@littledotstudios.com

Cocoa Slavery

Chocolate Child Slaves- CNN

Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast -- the world's largest cocoa producer -- to investigate what's happening to children working in the fields.

published: 16 Jan 2012

The Dark Side Of Chocolate 2010 Full Documentry

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. Cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to CorpWatch. Chocolate producers around the world have been pressured to "verify that their chocolate is not the product of child labor or slavery. In 2000, BBC aired Slavery: A GlobalInvestigation which brought the issue of child labor in the cooca industry to light. In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to...

16x9 - Child Labour: The Dark Side of Chocolate

Chocolate sure does taste good. But a 16x9 investigation inGhana uncovers a nasty truth - many cocoa beans in that country are harvested by children. Many of those kids aren't given a choice; some are even slaves. All workers, no matter the age, live in poverty. Still taste good?
CatherinePope reports.

published: 13 Aug 2012

Child Slavery In the cocoa fields

Chocolate industry tackles child slavery

RobynCurnow explores how CNN has covered this issue over the years and its efforts to reduce child labor.
EDOF is partnering with the CNN Freedom Project because of its long-standing commitment to bringing greater global awareness to the problem of human trafficking.
The Freedom Project has been pivotal in not only spreading information about the issue, but it has been able to catalyze concrete action by donor countries, international organizations, NGO’s, and private foundations through passionate storytelling, investigative journalism, documentaries, and live events.

published: 06 May 2015

Worked at the Ivory Coast Cacao Plantation: Tasting Chocolate for the First Time | TRACKS

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Meet the two young men; Noufou and Mamoutou, who recently came back from labouring the cocoa plantations; a place from where not everyone returns alive.
In a striking moment caught by the filmmaker; these two young men taste chocolate for the first time in their lives.
TRACKS publishes unique, unexpected and untold stories from across the world every week.
From "Semisweet: Life in Chocolate"
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRACKSTravelChannel/
Content licensed from Cargo Releasing.
Any queries, please contact us at: support@littledotstudios.com

Cocoa Slavery

Chocolate Child Slaves- CNN

Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. C...

Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast -- the world's largest cocoa producer -- to investigate what's happening to children working in the fields.

Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast -- the world's largest cocoa producer -- to investigate what's happening to children working in the fields.

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. Cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to CorpWatch. Chocolate producers around the world have been pressured to "verify that their chocolate is not the product of child labor or slavery. In 2000, BBC aired Slavery: A GlobalInvestigation which brought the issue of child labor in the cooca industry to light. In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hope to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa.
Production
The Dark Side of Chocolate was produced by Danish journalist Miki Mistrati who investigated the use of child labor and trafficked children in chocolate production. It is filmed by U. Roberto Romano.The filming started in Germany, where Mistrati asked vendors where their chocolate comes from. They then flew to Mali, where many of the children are from. Next, they explored the Ivory Coast where the cocoa plantations are located. The film ends in Switzerland where both the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Nestle headquarters are located. Much of the footage in this documentary is recorded using a secret camera located in a bag Mistrati carries with him. The documentary was released in 2010, first in Denmark, and later in Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and NorwaySynopsis
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol that would aim to end the worse forms of child trafficking and slave labor.[9] However, child trafficking still continued in countries in West Africa. Authorities and companies denied it happened. Due to this conflicting outlook, the filmmakers went undercover to discover the truth. The film starts with its two filmmakers investigating independently by journeying to the western coast of Africa to the country of Mali, the country where children were rumored to be smuggled from and then transported to the Ivory Coast.[10] The team of journalists aimed to investigate human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the worldwide chocolate industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks each vendor at a gathering of chocolate makers where their chocolate is imported from. Their responses lead to the conclusion that almost all chocolate is imported from somewhere in Africa. Their detective work lead them to find that people in Mali were trafficking children at bus stations by bribing them with work and money, or by kidnapping them from villages. Afterward, they are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to plantations. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard labor, physically abused, and paid poor wages, or none at all. Most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. Child labor and trafficking is illegal according to the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by all major chocolate companies promising not to harvest their cocoa beans through means of child workers. When confronted with this issue, the corporate representatives of some of these companies denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the investigations of the filmmakers proved brought to light the continued abuse of children on cocoa plantations.

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. Cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to CorpWatch. Chocolate producers around the world have been pressured to "verify that their chocolate is not the product of child labor or slavery. In 2000, BBC aired Slavery: A GlobalInvestigation which brought the issue of child labor in the cooca industry to light. In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hope to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa.
Production
The Dark Side of Chocolate was produced by Danish journalist Miki Mistrati who investigated the use of child labor and trafficked children in chocolate production. It is filmed by U. Roberto Romano.The filming started in Germany, where Mistrati asked vendors where their chocolate comes from. They then flew to Mali, where many of the children are from. Next, they explored the Ivory Coast where the cocoa plantations are located. The film ends in Switzerland where both the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Nestle headquarters are located. Much of the footage in this documentary is recorded using a secret camera located in a bag Mistrati carries with him. The documentary was released in 2010, first in Denmark, and later in Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and NorwaySynopsis
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol that would aim to end the worse forms of child trafficking and slave labor.[9] However, child trafficking still continued in countries in West Africa. Authorities and companies denied it happened. Due to this conflicting outlook, the filmmakers went undercover to discover the truth. The film starts with its two filmmakers investigating independently by journeying to the western coast of Africa to the country of Mali, the country where children were rumored to be smuggled from and then transported to the Ivory Coast.[10] The team of journalists aimed to investigate human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the worldwide chocolate industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks each vendor at a gathering of chocolate makers where their chocolate is imported from. Their responses lead to the conclusion that almost all chocolate is imported from somewhere in Africa. Their detective work lead them to find that people in Mali were trafficking children at bus stations by bribing them with work and money, or by kidnapping them from villages. Afterward, they are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to plantations. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard labor, physically abused, and paid poor wages, or none at all. Most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. Child labor and trafficking is illegal according to the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by all major chocolate companies promising not to harvest their cocoa beans through means of child workers. When confronted with this issue, the corporate representatives of some of these companies denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the investigations of the filmmakers proved brought to light the continued abuse of children on cocoa plantations.

BV 11-11 The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery
"The Dark Side of Chocolate" directed by Miki Mistrati shows that young children are still being illegally sold to cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, Africa to harvest much of the cocoa crop used by Nestle, Hershey and the major chocolate producers of the world.
In 2001, these large chocolate producers signed the Cocoa Protocol which promised to work for the eradication of child labor by 2008.
The Church of the BrethrenAnnual Conference in 2008 passed a resolution against slavery in the 21st century. That action was the 10th time that the Church of the Brethren had passed anti-slavery resolutions:. Nine other resolutions were passed from 1782 - 1857, prior to the US civil war to end slavery. The 2008 resolution made a commitment to educating ourselves and others about modern day slavery.
--
For a quick view on YouTube of more PEGMedia films available from BrethrenVoices: http://BrethrenVoices.at7c.com
--

BV 11-11 The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery
"The Dark Side of Chocolate" directed by Miki Mistrati shows that young children are still being illegally sold to cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, Africa to harvest much of the cocoa crop used by Nestle, Hershey and the major chocolate producers of the world.
In 2001, these large chocolate producers signed the Cocoa Protocol which promised to work for the eradication of child labor by 2008.
The Church of the BrethrenAnnual Conference in 2008 passed a resolution against slavery in the 21st century. That action was the 10th time that the Church of the Brethren had passed anti-slavery resolutions:. Nine other resolutions were passed from 1782 - 1857, prior to the US civil war to end slavery. The 2008 resolution made a commitment to educating ourselves and others about modern day slavery.
--
For a quick view on YouTube of more PEGMedia films available from BrethrenVoices: http://BrethrenVoices.at7c.com
--

Chocolate sure does taste good. But a 16x9 investigation inGhana uncovers a nasty truth - many cocoa beans in that country are harvested by children. Many of those kids aren't given a choice; some are even slaves. All workers, no matter the age, live in poverty. Still taste good?
CatherinePope reports.

Chocolate sure does taste good. But a 16x9 investigation inGhana uncovers a nasty truth - many cocoa beans in that country are harvested by children. Many of those kids aren't given a choice; some are even slaves. All workers, no matter the age, live in poverty. Still taste good?
CatherinePope reports.

RobynCurnow explores how CNN has covered this issue over the years and its efforts to reduce child labor.
EDOF is partnering with the CNN Freedom Project because of its long-standing commitment to bringing greater global awareness to the problem of human trafficking.
The Freedom Project has been pivotal in not only spreading information about the issue, but it has been able to catalyze concrete action by donor countries, international organizations, NGO’s, and private foundations through passionate storytelling, investigative journalism, documentaries, and live events.

RobynCurnow explores how CNN has covered this issue over the years and its efforts to reduce child labor.
EDOF is partnering with the CNN Freedom Project because of its long-standing commitment to bringing greater global awareness to the problem of human trafficking.
The Freedom Project has been pivotal in not only spreading information about the issue, but it has been able to catalyze concrete action by donor countries, international organizations, NGO’s, and private foundations through passionate storytelling, investigative journalism, documentaries, and live events.

Worked at the Ivory Coast Cacao Plantation: Tasting Chocolate for the First Time | TRACKS

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Me...

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Meet the two young men; Noufou and Mamoutou, who recently came back from labouring the cocoa plantations; a place from where not everyone returns alive.
In a striking moment caught by the filmmaker; these two young men taste chocolate for the first time in their lives.
TRACKS publishes unique, unexpected and untold stories from across the world every week.
From "Semisweet: Life in Chocolate"
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRACKSTravelChannel/
Content licensed from Cargo Releasing.
Any queries, please contact us at: support@littledotstudios.com

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Meet the two young men; Noufou and Mamoutou, who recently came back from labouring the cocoa plantations; a place from where not everyone returns alive.
In a striking moment caught by the filmmaker; these two young men taste chocolate for the first time in their lives.
TRACKS publishes unique, unexpected and untold stories from across the world every week.
From "Semisweet: Life in Chocolate"
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TRACKSTravelChannel/
Content licensed from Cargo Releasing.
Any queries, please contact us at: support@littledotstudios.com

Chocolate Child Slaves- CNN

Full article here : http://tinyurl.com/Child-Slaves-Cnn
Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement. CNN's David McKenzie travels into the heart of the Ivory Coast -- the world's largest cocoa producer -- to investigate what's happening to children working in the fields.

The Dark Side Of Chocolate 2010 Full Documentry

The Dark Side of Chocolate is a 2010 documentary film about the exploitation and slavetrading of African children to harvest chocolate still occurring nearly ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end it. Cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast provide 80% of the world with chocolate, according to CorpWatch. Chocolate producers around the world have been pressured to "verify that their chocolate is not the product of child labor or slavery. In 2000, BBC aired Slavery: A GlobalInvestigation which brought the issue of child labor in the cooca industry to light. In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association and its members signed a document that prohibited child trafficking and labor in the cocoa industry after 2008. Despite this effort, numerous children are still forced to work on cocoa plantations in Africa. In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hope to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa.
Production
The Dark Side of Chocolate was produced by Danish journalist Miki Mistrati who investigated the use of child labor and trafficked children in chocolate production. It is filmed by U. Roberto Romano.The filming started in Germany, where Mistrati asked vendors where their chocolate comes from. They then flew to Mali, where many of the children are from. Next, they explored the Ivory Coast where the cocoa plantations are located. The film ends in Switzerland where both the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Nestle headquarters are located. Much of the footage in this documentary is recorded using a secret camera located in a bag Mistrati carries with him. The documentary was released in 2010, first in Denmark, and later in Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and NorwaySynopsis
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association formed an action plan entitled the Harkin-Engel Protocol that would aim to end the worse forms of child trafficking and slave labor.[9] However, child trafficking still continued in countries in West Africa. Authorities and companies denied it happened. Due to this conflicting outlook, the filmmakers went undercover to discover the truth. The film starts with its two filmmakers investigating independently by journeying to the western coast of Africa to the country of Mali, the country where children were rumored to be smuggled from and then transported to the Ivory Coast.[10] The team of journalists aimed to investigate human trafficking and child labor in the Ivory Coast and its effects on the worldwide chocolate industry. The documentary starts in Cologne, Germany where Mistrati asks each vendor at a gathering of chocolate makers where their chocolate is imported from. Their responses lead to the conclusion that almost all chocolate is imported from somewhere in Africa. Their detective work lead them to find that people in Mali were trafficking children at bus stations by bribing them with work and money, or by kidnapping them from villages. Afterward, they are taken to towns near the border such as Zegoua, where another trafficker transports the children over the border on a dirt-bike. Then they are left with a third trafficker who sells the children to plantations. The children, ranging in age from 10 to 15, are forced to do hard labor, physically abused, and paid poor wages, or none at all. Most of them stay with the plantation until they die, never seeing their families again. Child labor and trafficking is illegal according to the Harkin-Engel Protocol, an agreement that was signed by all major chocolate companies promising not to harvest their cocoa beans through means of child workers. When confronted with this issue, the corporate representatives of some of these companies denied all rumors of child labor and trafficking, but the investigations of the filmmakers proved brought to light the continued abuse of children on cocoa plantations.

The Dark Side of Chocolate - Child Slavery

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"The Dark Side of Chocolate" directed by Miki Mistrati shows that young children are still being illegally sold to cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast, Africa to harvest much of the cocoa crop used by Nestle, Hershey and the major chocolate producers of the world.
In 2001, these large chocolate producers signed the Cocoa Protocol which promised to work for the eradication of child labor by 2008.
The Church of the BrethrenAnnual Conference in 2008 passed a resolution against slavery in the 21st century. That action was the 10th time that the Church of the Brethren had passed anti-slavery resolutions:. Nine other resolutions were passed from 1782 - 1857, prior to the US civil war to end slavery. The 2008 resolution made a commitment to educating ourselves and others about modern day slavery.
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16x9 - Child Labour: The Dark Side of Chocolate

Chocolate sure does taste good. But a 16x9 investigation inGhana uncovers a nasty truth - many cocoa beans in that country are harvested by children. Many of those kids aren't given a choice; some are even slaves. All workers, no matter the age, live in poverty. Still taste good?
CatherinePope reports.

Chocolate industry tackles child slavery

RobynCurnow explores how CNN has covered this issue over the years and its efforts to reduce child labor.
EDOF is partnering with the CNN Freedom Project because of its long-standing commitment to bringing greater global awareness to the problem of human trafficking.
The Freedom Project has been pivotal in not only spreading information about the issue, but it has been able to catalyze concrete action by donor countries, international organizations, NGO’s, and private foundations through passionate storytelling, investigative journalism, documentaries, and live events.

Worked at the Ivory Coast Cacao Plantation: Tasting Chocolate for the First Time | TRACKS

Children and teenagers make the treacherous journey to the Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations, where they work up to 16 hours a day under slave-like conditions. Meet the two young men; Noufou and Mamoutou, who recently came back from labouring the cocoa plantations; a place from where not everyone returns alive.
In a striking moment caught by the filmmaker; these two young men taste chocolate for the first time in their lives.
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